Senior AI Engineer - Generative AI & Agent Tech

Citi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave (plus bank hols)

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Job summary

Citi London seeks a seasoned Lead AI Engineer to combine hands-on engineering and architecture with strong business engagement. You will shape platform strategy, work with Generative AI, AI Agents and modern AI engineering in a fast-moving environment.

This senior role offers ownership, mentoring responsibility and direct engagement with senior stakeholders to drive scalable, production-grade AI platforms.

Qualifications

• Senior Engineer/Lead experience with architecture and business engagement.
• Strong Python and/or Java development background.
• Experience with Generative AI and AI Agents; Google ADK desired.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead technical components end-to-end aligning with business goals.
• Translate problems with stakeholders into technical solutions.
• Shape roadmaps, strategy and priorities with team leads and stakeholders.
• Design, develop scalable production-grade AI solutions with solid engineering principles.
• Build AI solutions including Generative AI and Agentic AI using Google ADK.
• Design, develop and test AI Agents with MCP servers.
• Write high-quality code in Python and/or Java across modern AI tech.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and team development.
• Drive code quality via reviews, testing, CI/CD practices.
• Ensure Citi risk, security and compliance requirements are met within platforms.

Skills

Python

Java

Software architecture

REST APIs

CI/CD

DevOps tooling

Mentoring

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Google ADK

Postgres

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Neo4j

uDeploy

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Job description

Citi London seeks a seasoned Lead AI Engineer to combine hands-on engineering and architecture with strong business engagement. You will shape platform strategy, work with Generative AI, AI Agents and modern AI engineering in a fast-moving environment.

This senior role offers ownership, mentoring responsibility and direct engagement with senior stakeholders to drive scalable, production-grade AI platforms.